Lots of history combined with new culture create a niche in rehabbing, big federal and state agencies here, large corporate headquarter presence, active entrepreneurs ....and my favorite (as far as living), mild weather with all four seasons:) @Trevor Ewen "jump" into Richmond

Heck, I was accused of giving terrible advice when I posted it in a thread in which the landlord was being given instruction by the tenant as to when the landlord could access her property!  

I have always been an entrepreneur at spirit and owned a restaurant and vending machine business before the age of 30.

Some lenders will apply your extra payment to the interest if you do not provide any instructions. 

Also, if you look at the instructions for Schedule A, Line 14, it states that investment interest does not include any interest allocable to passive activities.

Hi Everyone,I'm a young entrepreneur interesting in getting into the investment game.

And yes there are apps that integrate to make your life easy. for eg Bill and Pay for recurring rent, email invoices, portal for tenants ACH or credit card payment.Here is what you can accomplish after you have written your instructions you should be able to pull up reports by owners, property, units, tenants, vendors, employees, hard and soft money loans, including constructions... and anything you enter and more. -- chart of accounts is just the starting point-- rent roll-- tenant - invoice, statement, payments, credits, recurring rent - advance-- security deposits -- work orders - completed, tenant's call, --lease expiration -- email's - has also a mini CRM build in--as to owners - summary and detail, reserve funds, -- Get reports for everything you enter... create pdf or export to excel .

Lail.Crowded HouseCrowdfunding—the practice of pooling small amounts of money from many investors—has helped budding entrepreneurs capture the imagination of strangers who combine to bankroll a dream.Recently, home buyers who think they have found a promising fixer-upper have gotten into the act.New online crowdfunding platforms that focus on housing, such as Groundfloor, iFunding and Patch of Land, have launched over the past year or so.

I told him, but you don't understand had I showed up at the bank with several large checks that were not in my name and my signatures on the back of them assuming I could deposit based on the instructions provided then I would have been in for a rude awakening, plus no doubt other branch officials would have been called in, I would have looked very suspicious.

Here's a thought ... if you want to be an entrepreneur and you are not seeing a meetup near you that meets your needs, then consider starting one ... that's what entrepreneurs do, they identify gaps in the market and create things to fill those gaps ... you can use BP to help.